New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-01-23
NEW SOUTHERN COAL AND IRON REGIONS

GENERAL WILDER TELLS HOW PROTECTION IDEAS
ARE ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS GAINS.
General J. +. Wider, who bcseigcd Chattanooga
during the war; captured the town and has lived
there ever since looks great deal like Frank Hsc0ck.
the Onondaga Congressman who Is soon TO
Senator Warner Micr's toga. He has the
sbaven upper lip, trims his beari and hair in the
eame style, and has the large, frank eycs. He
is a few years older perhaps, and has few moro
white balrs, but is jd~t vigop.iis In acton AMI
talks a. fuently. General Wilder Is irDn manu-
facturer, havrg built the first blast furnaces and
rolling mills in the south at Chattanooga more than
twenty years ago, and believes in protection IN Its
fullest sense. On that Issue IN last falls campaign
he came within 346 votes of being elected a member
Of the Lth Congress from Tennessce's III Congress
District, which ten years ago had a Democratic ma
lorty of IL 900. His opponent was John r.
Neal the present representative. who became so
frightened at the progress of the protection sentiment
n his district that in tie words Of the General, he
"straidledn
"You can put it down in your memoranda book
said General Wider. who was spending few days in
New-York in the interests yf his iron business that
in les than ten years at least five Of the Southern
States will give good round Republican majoritcs.
have just finished tour Of the principal Southern
state, and i know exactly what am talking about
when say that the people down there are beginning
to appreciate the advantages 10 DO gained from pro-
lection. Northern capital, which II rapidly low
the enormous natural resources to be found
there, Is opening their eyes, and they
see how much their continued success depends
upon Their products not being brought into rlnous
competition with iorign cheap labor. Manufacturing
towns are rapidly sIunglng up in the midst Of the
vast coal and mineral deposits OF the Clronas, Vir
gina, Georgia, Eastern Tennessee and Northern Ala
bama and wherever a furnace mill is erected its
influence In wiping out q Democratic majority is
fet almost Immediately Eve tired Of sentimental
pol tics, the people are saying and now propose
to give our support to the party which takes Of
our business interests"
General Wilder spent most OF last month In
prospecting along the line Of the proposed Charleston
Chic ago and Cincinnati Railroad, with the view Of
establ shng blast furnaces and rolling mills at sua
bio points. The Charleston Chicago ard Cincinnati
road being built by the and Southern
Construction Company, composed Of Boston, New
York and Southern capitalists, through part of tho
country which is said to DO fabulousy rich In coal
iron and marble deposits. and 1O2 miles Of 1t are
already completed aid in operation. The Southern
Term nus will be at Charleston, IS. g. From Camden
lew miles above Charleston branch will be build
70 Georgetown S. c., where seaport advantages said
10 equal TO any tho Atlantic coast are obtiinate
The important towns through which the road will
run are Lancaster. IOrkvls, black Station. where
the Atlanta Line road intersects Shelby, Ruther
Ori, Marion, the Western North Carolina road
JOhn-n City, on the East Tennessee road and through
Scott and Wise Counties, Virginia and the valley OF
The Big Sandy River TO Ashland tho northern ter
mus, where six railroads ntcrsect The entire
length OF the new road will be about COO miles, and
II Is stmae that the cost Of construction and equip
ment will te about S24, 100000. The Appalachian
Mountains VIII be crossed at their lowest elevation
between Mounts Mitchell and Roam. No tunnels will
Necessary and the heaviest grade will not exceed
eighty feet to the mile. The water gap of the Biz |
Sanly River will serve to the grades In crossing
he Cumberland Mountains
General Wilder Ia enthusiastic over the outlook I'm
the territory through which the road il to run
for iron manufacturers lie found tberp q seemipgIv |
Unlimited vein of iron ore Of the kind best adapted
Tor making Besscmer steel, ard five extensive seams
If coal OF three different varieties, all In such Positions
that they can be reached by adts the sidcs
of the mountains In plsce Of shafts such largely
re luiIed In the coal fields OF Pennsylvania There
also contiguous TO the line road in Tennessee
and Virginia, veins Of fine marble great areas OF
ard wood timber